Double Bill: F.E.A.R & Have Your Passport Ready

This October, Stand and Be Counted Theatre brings two thought-provoking experiences to Curve as part of Journeys Festival International.

HAVE YOUR PASSPORT READY | 4pm start, Q&A afterwards

You have the right to remain. Now you just have to prove it.

Experience the live, in-person version of Have Your Passport Ready, the original short film-meets-video game that puts you directly in the world of the UK’s hostile environment.   

Led by brothers Khaled and Mohammad Aljawad from Syria, now based in Sheffield, you’ll explore an unknown city without an interpreter, collecting evidence to prove your right to remain in the UK.

Created by the Stand & Be Counted Theatre, the UK’s first Theatre Company of Sanctuary; this short film-meets-video game was commissioned by Knaïve Theatre to launch the inaugural season of Knaïve Theatre presents: A Digital Lyceum.

F.E.A.R (False Evidence Appearing Real) | 6.30pm start, Q&A afterwards

Who do you trust when you can’t trust yourself?

Written by Rosie MacPherson, performed by Alina Aleva and directed by Gitika Buttoo, F.E.A.R (False Evidence Appearing Real) is a state-of-the-nation play set inside one grown-up girl’s head. A brave, no-holds-barred exploration of collective trauma, it comes with mad beats and straight-talking sanity. 

A work-in-progress showing.

Her loves her job as a teacher, it’s everything to her and she’d do anything for the kids in her class. She struggles with her mental health but if she could just shut her Brain up then she’d probably be just fine. She’s an ‘inspirational’ role model for the next generation, secretly building a socialist army of the future in her Year 4 classroom.  

But things are taking their toll: the pressure of the job, the terrifying and unrelenting impending doom of fascism and the climate crisis and after ‘The Incident’ she’s confined to her studio flat with only her thoughts to help make things right. 

Age guidance: 14+
Show warnings: These productions deal with themes relating to migration, the immigration system and sensitive subjects.